NUTS-3 HR050 · Croatia
Population
777,3592025
GDP
€29,117M2024
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
80.8%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
636.6 km²
TerraSight · Compare
2 regions side-by-side
HR050 · NL213
Decision brief
Download brief (PDF)mandate-neutral · ranked by overall opportunity
Best overall fit: Twente (Opportunity 78). Runner-up: Grad Zagreb (60). Contrarian pick: Grad Zagreb — leads the set on Economic base (EU pctl 91).
Strengths
Economic base (91) · Talent & skills (86)
Red flags
Freight intensity (EU bottom 15%)
Governance (EU bottom 15%)
Air quality (EU bottom 15%)
Why you might not pick Twente
Its weakest dimension is Freight intensity (EU pctl 38) — Grad Zagreb may suit a mandate that weights that higher.
How robust is this recommendation?
Twente leads under all four archetype mandates — the recommendation is weight-stable.
Phase-2 diligence checklist
- Site-level grid connection capacity and power pricing (beyond country-grain energy data)
- Local incentives, tax regimes and permitting timelines
- Workforce depth for your specific roles (the talent pillar is a proxy)
- Real-estate availability, rents and land — public pan-EU data stops at the Nordics
This is a mandate-neutral read. To weight the pillars to your thesis, run these regions through the Site Screener — it ranks all 1,211 regions under your weights and exports the full PDF. First-pass macro screening, not investment advice.
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
59.7
78.1
Resilience Indexdiversification, stability, buffers
30.8
74.8
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
46.1
66.2
Clean AirPM2.5 / PM10 / NO₂ inverted
1.5
77.7
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
54.7
54.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
85.5
87.0
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
72.8
62.0
Trajectories · 2012–latest
Real GDP (2020 prices)
5.7% 5y
2.6% 5y
Population
0.1% 5y
0.4% 5y
Unemployment rate
8.6% 5y
1.1% 5y
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
€37,456
€52,748
Population density
1,221 /km²
428 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
FR-only
All indicators · 89 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€24,145M
€30,467M
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€32M
€541M
GVA — industry (B–E)
€2,735M
€5,211M
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€2,100M
€4,924M
GVA — construction (F)
€1,181M
€2,345M
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€8,652M
€6,537M
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€13,100
€25,600
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
52,500 PPS
45,300 PPS
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€37,500
€52,900
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,329M
€12,713M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€461M
€1,481M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€14,255M
€29,186M
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€1,092M
€2,221M
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2,634M
€1,065M
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€6,332M
€6,706M
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€5,213M
€6,849M
Real GDP (constant 2020 prices, incl. short-term forecast)
€23,326M
€28,086M
Labour productivity per person employed (EUR)
€80,212
€100,224
Gross fixed capital formation, NUTS-3 (ARDECO)
€8,099M
€7,316M
Labour market
Employment, total persons
387,180
354,200
Self-employed persons
32,030
52,100
Employment in manufacturing (C)
41,510
39,600
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
77.3%
86.6%
Youth unemployment rate (15–24) ·N2
15.3%
8.4%
Unemployment rate 15-74, NUTS-3 native (ARDECO)
3.0%
3.7%
Labour force aged 15+ (ARDECO)
395,500
364,600
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
67,348
65,341
Enterprise births
8,203
5,952
Enterprise deaths
3,641
3,312
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.6%
6.3%
Innovation & R&D
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
2.2%
—
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
12.2%
4.6%
R&D personnel (% of active population, FTE) ·N2
2.8%
—
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
51.7%
41.9%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
58.9%
51.3%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
10.8%
24.4%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
41.8%
28.9%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
12.9%
12.3%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
92.0%
99.7%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
2,721,617
3,983,009
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
511 /1k
529 /1k
Road freight loaded (annual, thousand tonnes)
9,330 kt
15,285 kt
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2,102
1,799
Motorway density (km per 1,000 km²) ·N2
76 km/1000km²
54 km/1000km²
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
270
280
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
9
71
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
1
3
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
502,831
408,845
Population aged 65+
161,220
140,114
Population aged under 15
113,308
94,644
Median age of population
43.1 yrs
43.5 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.1%
34.3%
Crude rate of total population change
6.8 /1k
4.4 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
9.0 /1k
6.1 /1k
Crude birth rate
8.9 /1k
8.8 /1k
Crude death rate
11.1 /1k
10.6 /1k
Live births
6,862
5,679
Deaths
8,635
6,786
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.6%
57.4%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.33
1.53
Population density (persons per km²)
—
428 /km²
Projected population, 2030–2040 (EUROPOP2019 baseline)
—
655,971
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
12.4%
15.8%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
80.2 yrs
81.7 yrs
At-risk-of-poverty rate (regional) ·N2
11.4%
12.2%
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
695 /100k
—
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
1,456 /100k
1,030 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
310 /100k
258 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.4 /100k
—
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
62.8 /100k
17.6 /100k
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
289 /100k
180 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
453 /100k
1,130 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
22 /M
46 /M
Governance & institutions
Government effectiveness, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.72
1.77
Regulatory quality, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.30
1.72
Rule of law, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.43
1.73
Control of corruption, WGI score -2.5..2.5 (country)
0.11
1.92
Political stability & absence of violence, WGI score (country)
0.73
0.63
Energy
Industrial electricity price, 2-20 GWh band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.126/kWh
€0.142/kWh
Industrial gas price, 10-100k GJ band, excl. taxes (national)
€0.048/kWh
€0.039/kWh
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
113 m
12 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
25 days/yr
6 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
66 days/yr
41 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
10 days/yr
3 days/yr